Bruits Marrons
Calixto Neto
- Wed 10.6 20:15 — 21:30 Budascoop
Little text, spoken in English and French
When Calixto Neto heard the music of the Black gay composer, singer, and performer Julius Eastman (New York, 1940–1990) during a rehearsal in 2019, it turned out to be love at first hearing. Eastman left his mark on the downtown New York art scene and American minimalist music, but lost a large portion of his compositions during an eviction from his apartment in Manhattan. Today his oeuvre is being rediscovered and – finally – posthumously recognized.
Calixto Neto, whose work focuses on lives on the margins of society and their unique journeys, has initiated a creative dialogue with this immense and politically powerful work. The stage transforms into a safe haven, a territory of complicity between living bodies. A temporary Maroon community, bringing together queer artists, artists of colour or those with a migrant background. A symbolic family in honour of the musician who dreamed of being ‘freely gay, black and a musician’.
Raw sounds, burning energy and physical dialogues. Bruits Marrons is an attempt to listen beyond the audible, to look beyond the visible. A journey through the rubble left behind by history, in search of new forms of community, renewal and healing. A celebration of the Maroon heritage and its ability to make resistance enchanting once more through beauty, anger and vibration.
Credits
choreography Calixto Neto performance Shereya, Andrège Bidiamambu, Stanley Ollivier, Isabela Fernandes Santana, Ndoho Ange musical direction & performance Omar Gabriel Delnevo choreographic assistance Carolina Campos set design Morgana Machado Marques costume design Suelem de Oliveira da Silva light design Eduardo Abdala technical direction Marie Predour sound management Marie Mouslouhouddine production, administration, & distribution Julie Le Gall executive production VOA thanks to Dalila Khatir, Lucila Piffer, Shirley Soa, Rafael Frazão, Jean-David Lemarié, Fallon Mayanja coproductions Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise; Festival d’Automne à Paris; CND – Centre national de la danse; Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles; Mille Plateaux, CCN La Rochelle; Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble dans le cadre de l’accueil-studio – ministère de la culture; Cndc – Angers dans le cadre de accueil-studio – ministère de la Culture with the support of Adami, kunstencentrum BUDA (Courtrai), de la Ménagerie de verre, du Festival Moving in November, de la Drac lle-de-France – ministère de la Culture dans le cadre du conventionnement et du mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts Action financée par la Région Ile-de-France